At 09:18 8/16/2001, William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote the following:
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>From: "Sebastian Bergmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 2:03 AM
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>> Jerry Baker wrote:
>> > All better. Thanks.
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>> Hm, it bails on a missing 'awk' executable here. I'll search for
>> a Win32 port of it now and try again.
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>> Just curious: Why is awk now needed on Win32?
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>Actually, bison and awk will soon be required, but not for final distros
>(I HOPE!) only for intermediate builds from CVS. But the SSL bison output
>is stored in CVS, so it doesn't frequently have to be regenerated (although
>the win32 project will now do so, when required.)
Sed has been required to build Apache on NT since I started doing it,
and you need bison to build PHP, so I don't think awk is a problem.
>Someday soon, awk will be manditory, once .dsp files are also auto-generated ...
>The evil alternative is to force everyone to install WSH at several MB :(
Please don't even think about it. :)
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